#MLA15 Twitter Archive, 8-11 January 2015

Abstract

#MLA15 is the hashtag which corresponded to the 2015 Modern Language Association Annual Convention. The Convention was held in Vancouver from Thursday 8 to Sunday 11 January 2015. This dataset is a .xlsx file including data from Tweets publicly published with #mla15 as harvested by Ernesto Priego (City University London) and Chris Zarate (MLA). This dataset includes Tweets posted during the actual convention with #mla15: the set starts with a Tweet from Thursday 08/01/2015 00:02:53 Pacific Time and ends with a Tweet from Sunday 11/01/2015 23:59:58 Pacific Time. The total number of Tweets in this dataset sums 23,609 Tweets. Only Tweets from users with at least two followers were collected. A combination of Twitter Archiving Google Spreadsheets (Martin Hawksey's TAGS 6.0; available at https://tags.hawksey.info/ ) was used to harvest this collection. OpenRefine (http://openrefine.org/) was used for deduplicating the data. Please note that both research and experience show that the Twitter search API isn't 100% reliable. Large tweet volumes affect the search collection process. The API might "over-represent the more central users", not offering "an accurate picture of peripheral activity" (González-Bailón, Sandra, et al. 2012). It is therefore not guaranteed this file contains each and every Tweet tagged with the archived hashtag during the indicated period, and is shared for comparative and indicative educational and research purposes only. Please note the data in this file is likely to require further refining and even deduplication. The data is shared as is. This dataset is shared to encourage open research into scholarly activity on Twitter. If you use or refer to this data in any way please cite and link back using the citation information above. For the #MLA14 datasets, please go toPriego, Ernesto; Zarate, Chris (2014): #MLA14 Twitter Archive, 9-12 January 2014. figshare.http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.924801 --- NB. The previous version of this dataset accidentally contained a typo in the title that has been corrected. Please use the most recent version.